"Those Hut Point days would prove some of the happiest of my life. Just enough to eat and keep us warm, no more – no frills or trimmings: there is many a worse and more elaborate life… the luxuries…
While every day at McMurdo brings new challenges (hard stuff) and opportunities (fun stuff), there are some aspects of life here that are the same each day. So let's walk through a typical day...…
We have been so busy trying to get things up-and-running that it was a rare moment today when we were all in the lab together with the cozy familiarity of working together and apart but all for a…
Today was my first day helping the divers. Employees at McMurdo can get the "okay” from their supervisors to take a day or part of a day to help scientists. It is great for the employees to see…
Today we were trained on two different "light” vehicles, the Tucker and the Pisten Bully. The Tucker weighs 9,700 lbs and you can see how big it is compared to Bryan. Bryan is 6'2" tall! Bryan…
Robert Falcon Scott wrote these words in the early 1900’s. I have just a taste of that feeling after spending a mere 6 hours on the ice today! The note we received for this training: "You are…
Those words come from Apsley Cherry-Garrard, from the Introduction to The Worst Journey in the World which I am presently reading. I guess, considering the penguins, I shouldn’t feel too sorry for…
I woke up this morning to discover I had frostbitten finger tips on both thumbs and some of my fingers. White blisters surrounded by darker pink skin had replaced my normal light pink skin. Bummer…
This quote comes from Apsley Cherry-Garrard in his opening sentence of the Introduction to The Worst Journey in the World.  Cherry, as he was called, was one of the surviving support members of the…
Snowcraft I is called "Happy Camp” and is mandatory survival training for anyone going off-base at McMurdo. Following is the preamble we got in our letter from the FSTP (Field Safety Training…
Our team completed two on-line trainings before we started on this adventure.  We had two more at the CDC before we left, and then a welcome and meeting when we first arrived at McMurdo.  Today we…
These words come from Stephen Pyne in The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica and they came to mind when I first saw the icy continent. We woke up before 5 a.m. to catch our shuttle from the Windsor Bed…